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Kathleen Conway

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Kathleen Conway

  • Immortalized as a pin-up girl for famed artist Olivia de Berardinis.
  • Inventor of the Coola Hula Skirt; The All New Swimsuit Cover-Up.
  • Conway's Grandmother sailed from Ireland in 1936 to work as an actress.
  • She has written several children's books, poetry and haikus. Like Mark Twain she does not consider herself a writer, but an observer of life which is why she was inspired to write her first play & her latest script.
  • In True Lies she performed her first stunt with Arnold Schwarzenneger ending up on the cutting room floor.
  • Won a scholarship to Marymount College & attended UCLA Film School.
  • A graduate of Joanne Baron-D.W. Brown Acting Studio.
  • As a child she grew up on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii in Mokuleia where the television show _Lost_ was filmed.
  • As a young girl she was a professional hula dancer performing in Hawaii and Los Angeles.
  • Conway was a brownie, a girl scout, a cheerleader, junior princess and a professional cheerleader for the California Surf Soccer Team.
  • At the age of 15 she was the only teenager to picket outside her Catholic church for not allowing girls to be altar boys.
  • She makes quilts.
  • After her fiancee Scott Lavin passed in 1998 (Heir to Alberto Culver V0-5), film financier for Trading Places, Car Wash, Ghost, founder of Casa Blanca Records and more she has worked to raise awareness in the field of addiction.
  • In 2001 she became a Miss November calendar girl and greeting card model for renowned pin-up artist 'Olivia De Berardinis'.
  • Her father was a carpenter and a prop master that built the boat The Carthaginian for the classic movie Hawaii (1966) based on the original James A. Michener novel.
  • On Easter Sunday 2013 she made her singing debut on stage at the Hollywood Bowl with the Bel-Air Presbyterian church.
  • Appeared in the March issue of Playboy Magazine (1995) landing on page 69.
  • Her mother was born in Hollywood was a classically trained Cecchetti ballet and modern dancer for stage appearing in Bachelors Father & The Virginian.
  • She was a Camel cigarette girl appearing in Rolling Stone Magazine.
  • She was accepted into the prestigious college preparatory school Punahou in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Every leap year her Birthday is celebrated on Thanksgiving Day.
  • Photographed by icon Herb Ritts for a Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz ad in front of the landmark Beverly Hills Hillbillies mansion.
  • Former part owner of the celebrity hot-spot restaurant Kass Bah with Robert Kass step-son to Joan Collins.
  • On December 2, 1969 as a child both she and her family survived a 50 foot tidal wave on the North Shore of Oahu destroying their home and 35 others narrowly missing being swept out to sea.
  • While in London she dropped out of producing the script Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) delivered personally by director Matthew Vaughn because there were no female characters.
  • She grew up dancing on stage with dance troupes and winning a dance contest or two.
  • At 5-years-old with one white sheet and a peddle car she and her friends would pick up their audience and bring them back to their transformed garage for live stage performances she directed, starred and produced.
  • While at Marymount College her acting teacher quit his tenure to represent her in Hollywood not because she was a hot blonde, but because she was a funny hot blonde.
  • She could never understand Shakespeare, yet absolutely fell madly in love with Moliere.
  • The nickname 'Kicky' was given to her by American film producer, director, and screenwriter Larry Cohen.
  • Conway is the Goodwill Ambassador for the Island of Anuanurunga, French Polynesia.

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